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 | | From: | Timo Salmi | | Subject: | Re: Weekly ftplog for Timo's files | | Date: | Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:04:25 GMT |
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* An inmate riot last week at one of Maryland's most crowded and violent
* prisons will help force the state to consider a more rapid pace of
* prison construction, key state legislators said.
This level of monitoring has given us a world record % of prison population.
So much for 'The Land of the Free'.
* As a result, over 100 inmates were transferred to the state's "super-
* maximum" prison. Signs of looming trouble became evident weeks ago.
Signs of looming trouble have been ignored for years.
# "Notes and Comment", The New Yorker, April 13, 1992
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# Traditionally, vast prison systems have adorned tyrannies.
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# However, due to mandatory minimum sentencing and the profitable War on
# Drugs (due to a 1978 Federal forfeiture law), the United States has
# become the unchallenged world leader in incarceration rates.
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# We are so far ahead of every other nation we can be rest assured of
# remaining No. 1 for many years.
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# What kind of society are we hoping to create by this policy of wholesale
# incarceration? What will these millions of branded people, most of them
# unskilled, uneducated, and brutalized by imprisonment, be prepared to do
# when they emerge after many years?
This section is also about abusing citizens to control targeted individuals.
Examples are scattered throughout. Here come some now...
* "1984", author George Orwell, 1949, ISBN 0-679-41739-7
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* Something crashed onto the bed behind Winston's back. The head of a
* ladder had been thrust through the window and had burst the frame.
* Someo
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